Disbarred Ottawa lawyer J.D. Coon denied bail

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J.D. Coon, the Ottawa child-protection lawyer who molested a six-year-old shopper in 2013, was denied bail Tuesday on new prices of breaching launch circumstances to remain clear of kids.

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Coon, 58, was arrested at house in December on Ottawa police prices that he befriended some Alcoholics Nameless members solely to finish up being round their youngsters.

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The disbarred lawyer, also called John David Coon, is dealing with 5 counts of breaching his probation between August and November.

Coon is accused of being round youngsters thrice, going to a spot the place youngsters collect and utilizing the web with out supervision.

The disbarred Ottawa child-protection lawyer was jailed in 2020 for molesting a six-year-old woman and lived a low-key life till now.

magistrate Andrew Seymour denied Coon bail on the grounds of public security and that he’s a flight threat.

The final time Ottawa police got here to arrest him in 2014, Coon had fled the nation a month earlier. As reported on this newspaper, Coon went on to stay as a fugitive for 5 years and bought a job instructing youngsters at a college overseas.

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He turned himself in to authorities in Bangkok and returned to Ottawa beneath police escort.

He pleaded responsible to sexual interference and at sentencing in 2020, the court docket lastly heard from the sufferer’s household in a transferring assertion that was learn into the file by regional sexual violence Crown legal professional Louise Tansey.

Within the assertion by the kid’s mom, she stated she felt exploited at a most susceptible time. The intercourse crimes in opposition to her daughter left her shattered and indignant.

“You made a multitude of issues. You lied to me, used me, and left me extra susceptible than I already was. That anger turned to wrath after I discovered that you just preyed upon my youngster after which ran like a coward,” the mom wrote in her victim-impact assertion on the time.

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After Coon’s launch, he was banned for 10 years from being close to locations the place youngsters collect, equivalent to playgrounds, swimming pools and faculties. A pattern of his DNA can even be taken for the nationwide information financial institution and he’ll be listed on the sex-offenderregistry for 10 years.

The previous lawyer advised the woman he beloved her and to maintain his advances secret, in any other case he’d get into bother. However she didn’t maintain it a secret and in a September 2013 police interview Coon initially denied the accusations.

The Legislation Society of Ontario granted Coon a licence to practise regardless that the governing physique knew about his child-sex crimes historical past. He pleaded responsible to sexually assaulting a 12-year-old woman in 1991. The choose on the time gave him a conditional discharge, which implies he was spared a legal file after 15 months of probation.

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Past the child-sex crimes responsible plea, Coon additionally advised the regulation society he had spent a number of money and time “cruising redlight districts and hiring prostitutes.” The regulation society gave him a licence simply the identical, saying a previous discovering of guilt doesn’t preclude somebody from practising regulation. The regulation society stated on the time it acknowledged that folks can rehabilitate and was principally involved with the “current.” Coon went on to focus on child-protection regulation solely to molest one other youngster, this time a shopper.